Word: subverter
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...Latin American country that the Communists have tried hardest to subvert is oil-rich Venezuela. With weapons and funds smuggled in from Cuba, the Castroite Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación National (FALN) in the early 1960s terrorized both Caracas and the countryside, murdering policemen, blowing up pipelines, and bombing department stores. Two years ago, the rebels began to lose their momentum and holed up in the hills. Last month a bombing here, a machine-gunning there seemed to signal a return to the old pattern. Last week came a climax of sorts: in separate ambushes, FALN gunmen assassinated...
...accomplished three major objectives: 1) shoring up South Vietnamese morale, 2) "substantially" increasing the cost of infiltration for the Communists, forcing them to divert an estimated 200,000 workers to road-repair gangs, and 3) demonstrating to the aggressors that "as long as they continued their attempts to subvert and destroy the political institutions of the South, they would pay a high price not only in the South but in the North...
...established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...latter conference of educators and Peace Corps staff, the constantly recurring theme was the inability and unwillingness of almost all universities to respond to the Peace Corps. It was agreed that the Peace Corps must somehow subvert the educational institutions infect them with its own spirit...
...been increased. A constitution would be written with provisions to give the Africans a "blocking third" in the legislature and to assure them of increasing participation in the government, leading to majority rule. An international treaty imposing strict sanctions and control would insure against any attempts by whites to subvert the constitution. This policy implies faith in the Rhodesians' willingness to accept the principle of majority rule, and to abide by the terms of the settlement...